Posts Tagged ‘Cabinet’

David Cameron announced to Cabinet this morning that Sir Gus O'Donnell will retire at the end of the year. Whitehall expected the news, with the betting centering on whether it would be this year or n...
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The received wisdom is that the Lib Dems did pretty well out of the coalition negotiations, getting 75 per cent of their manifesto promises into the coalition agreement compared to the Conservatives' ...
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What is Chris Huhne up to? Even the Yes campaign appear to be getting impatient with his ever more strident attacks on his Conservative colleagues, the latest of which took place over the Cabinet tabl...
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David Cameron has been taking the long view recently. Last week, he invited a pride of Tory peers who served under Margaret Thatcher to Downing Street for coffee and a chat around the Cabinet table. T...
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I spent a few hours in the Commons earlier, where there is far from universal enthusiasm for the Prime Minister's departmental business plans. The staging for one caused great hilarity, with the Cabin...
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My Telegraph column this morning makes the point that however grim the Hague and Coulson sagas may be – and there's more to run with both it seems – they pale in comparison to the politica...
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The Gordon Brown roadshow is still on tour, though now under the management of David Cameron. Dave took his colleagues to Yorkshire for a Cabinet meeting in Bradford yesterday, deep in trooble-at-t’...
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The second televised election debate could be a pivotal event in modern British politics. If Nick Clegg, the Lib Dem leader, performs well and further improves his poll ratings, we could be looking a...
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This Government may be out of puff, out of ideas and out of luck but is not, alas, out of stunts. The Cabinet met in Cardiff this morning and the visit was spiced up with an announcement from Gordon...
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